Comments on: The Thousand-Year Spa

The Thousand-Year Spa

matteo — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 06:20:13 -0800

Hotel Godwin. Five-star luxury in Berchtesgaden, Hitler's mountain retreat.

By: matteo

matteo — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 06:22:55 -0800

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 06:33:41 -0800

So full-blooded Aryans get to check in to the five-star hotel, and untermenschen get to go "camping"?

By: Zurishaddai

Zurishaddai — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 07:53:10 -0800

We don't just want yodellers and thigh-slappers wearing lederhosen coming to Berchtesgaden No understatement. I passed through one summer in the late 80's, and, oh, what a sleepy little Dorf. I didn't see anything Hitler related; this was my poor attempt to see "the Alps" while staying within the limits of my German train pass.

By: LeLiLo

LeLiLo — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:22:05 -0800

Only a bit is online (unless you're a subscriber), but The Atlantic did a detailed article about this place in their April 2005 issue.

By: gesamtkunstwerk

gesamtkunstwerk — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:29:07 -0800

I guess I wish them well. I might find it a little hard to relax there, but I don't see why history should doom a town to obscurity. I am pretty certain that I would find it difficult to visit, and even more difficult to send postcards from. Then again, five-star luxury spas kind of give me the willies, too, so it's not really an issue for me.

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:37:58 -0800

I wonder how many tourists go there because it was Hitler's villa... Would the strange modern fascination with the man compensate for the number of people squicked out about swimming in The Führer's playground? I suppose we shall see.

By: grouse

grouse — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 03:43:18 -0800

I met Mike Godwin and have been working with him on a project recently. References to Godwin's Law just seem really weird to me now.